Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755269AbZDVI0q (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:26:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752632AbZDVI00 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:26:26 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:48025 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752127AbZDVI0Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:26:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:25:47 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Woodhouse , David Brownell , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Ingo Molnar , David VomLehn , Arjan van de Ven , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux USB Mailing List , Linux Embedded Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Wait for console to become available, v3.2 Message-ID: <20090422082547.GB31246@shareable.org> References: <20090420234006.GA1958@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <20090421064346.GB8020@elte.hu> <200904210013.48551.david-b@pacbell.net> <1240333871.3632.70.camel@macbook.infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 868 Lines: 20 Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ Actually, looking closer we should not use that particular name: we > already have something called a "console_driver" which is really the > "current VT" driver. Speaking of names... The word "console" is used to mean three different things in the kernel. Last time I had to understand the console code (because it wasn't showing on some device) that didn't help. But it was a 2.4 kernel 2 years ago so I didn't submit a patch :-) It would be a sensible though boring cleanup to change all the "VC" (virtual console) stuff to use the name "VT" (virtual terminal) consistently. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/